Vanilla Enhanced

🌿 Vanilla Enhanced Shader v1.00 - Full Release Changelog

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• Small things are changed,
• Contrast changed.
• Weather changed.

🌿 Vanilla Enhanced Shader v0.97 - Changelog

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🔆 Sun / Moon Direction Fix:

• Now properly uses sunPosition and moonPosition uniforms when available.
• If unavailable, a reliable fallback calculation is applied.
• Sun movement now follows the correct east-to-west trajectory using cos / sin.

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🔥 Torch PBR Fix:

• Torch light is now fully omnidirectional (radiates in all directions).
• Added rim lighting for torches, enhancing glow realism.
• Softer specular highlights (power reduced from 64 → 16).
• Introduced a minimum ambient value (0.2) for consistent visibility.

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👁️ View Direction Correction:

• viewDir now correctly computed as: normalize(cameraPosition - worldPos)
• All calculations are now consistent in world space.

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💎 Reflection Calculation Fix:

• Proper reflection vector using: reflect(-lightDirection, normal)
• Accurate specular highlights based on: dot(viewDir, reflectionDir)
• Ensures reflections respond correctly to camera angle.

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✅ Overall Impact:

• Sunlight and moonlight now illuminate from the correct directions.
• Torches provide consistent, realistic lighting from all angles.
• Specular reflections behave properly based on camera perspective.
• No more north-locked lighting artifacts — lighting directions now feel natural.

🌿 Vanilla Enhanced Shader v0.8 - Release Notes

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Day-Night lights fixed.

PBR strength decreased.

Added volumetric clouds.

Big bugs are fixed.

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🌿 Vanilla Enhanced Shader v0.72 - Release Notes

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Sun/Moon light direction fixed.

PBR strength changed.

Sun light's PBR improved.

Small bugs are fixed.

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🌿 Vanilla Enhanced Shader v0.6 - Release Notes

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🔄 General Overview:

• Builds upon the vanilla-inspired style with advanced Physically Based Rendering (PBR).
• Focuses on realistic light interaction, improved water reflections, and immersive visual depth.
• Maintains lightweight performance with broad GPU compatibility (#version 120 GLSL).

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✨ NEW FEATURES & IMPROVEMENTS

🧪 Physically Based Rendering (PBR) Enhancements:

• Full dynamic PBR support integrating normal, specular, and roughness maps.
• Multiple light sources handled: sun, torch, lava/glow blocks with realistic specular highlights.
• Environmental reflections added for metallic surfaces with Fresnel effect.
• Normal mapping approximation added for richer surface detail.

🌬️ Dynamic Wind Effect (Experimental):

• Subtle color shifting for foliage and grass based on world position and wind simulation.
• Currently implemented but disabled by default (commented out).

🌊 Water Reflection & Wetness:

• Enhanced water reflection responding to rain and wetness.
• Fresnel-based wet reflection highlights add realism during rainfall.

🎨 Depth-Based Color Grading:

• Distance-dependent desaturation and tinting for atmospheric depth.
• Warmer tones applied underground; cooler tones near surface.

💎 Improved Ore Glow:

• Smoothed glow intensity with pulsating shimmer for ore blocks in low light.
• Expanded ore types and refined glow colors.

🚫 Removed / Changed:

• Ambient environment tint no longer changes dynamically based on in-game time to maintain consistent tones.

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🎯 Minor Tweaks & Optimizations:

• Balanced tone-mapping and saturation for better PBR integration.
• Refined advanced lighting calculations and lightmap enhancement.
• Improved underwater color attenuation and fog blending.
• General shader code cleanup and optimization for better performance.

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📊 Performance & Compatibility:

• Continues support for older GPUs with GLSL #version 120.
• PBR and lighting calculations optimized to minimize frame rate impact.

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🔮 Roadmap for v0.7:

• Enable and refine dynamic wind effects.
• Add volumetric godrays (sunlight beams).
• Implement lightweight screen-space reflections.
• Add configurable user options for brightness, saturation, and wetness effects.